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thank you very much. >> congressman paul brown. coming up we'll hear from a lawmaker on the other side of the aisle who says raising the eligibility age is a non-starter in any deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. jan chakowski is here. i don't understand that either. taking the age from 65 to 67 gets you $1 billion. >> just today the democrats took it off the table. >> why? >> i don't know, and predictably we're coming off the lows right now with word that the president and speaker will be meeting face to face at the white house. the dow was down 90 point a moment ago, now down 57 point. keep an eye on this. >> let's find out how to make money. barclays out with its 2013 outlook. head of research is here. how the fed moves impacts your money next year and if it will impact his money, his 2013 outlook. >> later, if you could own one technology stock next year, which one would it be? noted technology investor dan niles is here, and you may be shocked and surprised to find out what name he's going with, still to come. you won't take my li
thank you very much. >> congressman paul brown. coming up we'll hear from a lawmaker on the other side of the aisle who says raising the eligibility age is a non-starter in any deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. jan chakowski is here. i don't understand that either. taking the age from 65 to 67 gets you $1 billion. >> just today the democrats took it off the table. >> why? >> i don't know, and predictably we're coming off the lows right now with word that the president and...
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. >> josh brown. >> buy johnson & johnson. >> there's more "fast money." the dow is off its lowest level of this day thus far it's down 120 points. it was down 145 at its lowest levels. keeping our eye on the cliff and the negotiations in d.c. follow me on twitter. >>> "halftime" is over. the second half of your trading day begins now. >>> the skies over capitol hill. what's going on there is landing like a led balloon on wall street. if you're losing money the last four days, you know who it is. senate majority leader harry reid says the u.s. is probably going over the fiscal cliff. he's planning a news conference. we don't have the exact time. when it goes, we'll go there. investors getting quite nervous. obviously the dow dropping below 13,000. the first time since early december. fear index is spiking the vick. what going over the cliff will mean for you and your money. we will talk about it this hour. >>> airline stocks flying high sitting at 1 1/2 year highs. will it be smooth skies for the industry next year in 2013. phil lebeau has the report. >>>
. >> josh brown. >> buy johnson & johnson. >> there's more "fast money." the dow is off its lowest level of this day thus far it's down 120 points. it was down 145 at its lowest levels. keeping our eye on the cliff and the negotiations in d.c. follow me on twitter. >>> "halftime" is over. the second half of your trading day begins now. >>> the skies over capitol hill. what's going on there is landing like a led balloon on wall street....
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josh brown on twitter was like, don't print the shirt yet, sulli. it changed in revenue model and stock fell. down again today. rim ceo was saying basically everything's fine because the blackberry 10 will be a game-changer. so let us bring in the aformentioned josh brown. he made big bet on rim. and i want it mention josh to our viewers. some on twitter didn't understand it. it wasn't, pick any stock you want. we gave you guys either boring slow growth stocks or high risk names to choose from. i want it make sure everybody knows that. it wasn't like this is some great pick you picked out of 5,000 stocks. >> no. if i today do it again, without knowing what happened in the year since, i would probably still pick something like this in a contest. you have to pick something that is going to be really high bet why and also buynary. hero or zero. to pick something like apple, which everyone already loved at the time. >> well, herb picked johnson&johnson. you still might just win this thing. >> as chief correspondent about rim or "street signs." there is
josh brown on twitter was like, don't print the shirt yet, sulli. it changed in revenue model and stock fell. down again today. rim ceo was saying basically everything's fine because the blackberry 10 will be a game-changer. so let us bring in the aformentioned josh brown. he made big bet on rim. and i want it mention josh to our viewers. some on twitter didn't understand it. it wasn't, pick any stock you want. we gave you guys either boring slow growth stocks or high risk names to choose from....
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i'm not a big scott brown follower. i think he's a little different, in my book, but that tweet he sent where the president made the gop a deal and he was jumping on a plane and all of a sudden the white house denied it's true and now we see that the house of representatives, for no apparent tangible reason, going to be back in session on sunday, i personally think scott brown tweeted something he wasn't supposed to. i think there is movement there, and i think maybe his tweet offers us a clue, even though nobody want to acknowledge the characters in kabuki theser. >> isn't that interesting. andrew, it all comes as the volatility index, the fear indicator in the market has been rising. we were back in yellow black territory, above 20 for the first time since july. which would mean that the market was actually getting sweaty palms here, don't you think? >> yeah. it's getting pretty chaotic. the interesting thing to me is you look at the volume. the volume is extremely low. look at a stock like apple. shares 20 million sh
i'm not a big scott brown follower. i think he's a little different, in my book, but that tweet he sent where the president made the gop a deal and he was jumping on a plane and all of a sudden the white house denied it's true and now we see that the house of representatives, for no apparent tangible reason, going to be back in session on sunday, i personally think scott brown tweeted something he wasn't supposed to. i think there is movement there, and i think maybe his tweet offers us a clue,...
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they do the charlie brown thing, they jerk the ball away. and this is what is going on. >> the posturing conceals the process that we are not aware of. but i talked to a budget aid that said, he thinks things are getting worse in terms for prospects of a deal. >> by the way, my contacts have said the same thing. you thank you very, very much. all of this may be defying predictions. it is a classic risk of a market rally. you know brian, you look at the market since the middle of november. i can't believe it is all fiscal cliff. what is going on here? >> really, since the beginning of november, you have seen this removal of uncertainty. so you have china engineering a soft landing and starting to recover. you have europe away from the brink. greece got upgraded today. who would have thought it. that is what the market is looking at. saying okay. it is not going to be the worst kcase sharcenario, but you coul extend the middle class tax cuts and be done with it. it is in a recession. >> and i think the market would not like that very much. eve
they do the charlie brown thing, they jerk the ball away. and this is what is going on. >> the posturing conceals the process that we are not aware of. but i talked to a budget aid that said, he thinks things are getting worse in terms for prospects of a deal. >> by the way, my contacts have said the same thing. you thank you very, very much. all of this may be defying predictions. it is a classic risk of a market rally. you know brian, you look at the market since the middle of...
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. >> what we got was a facebook post from scott brown who said he was come back to washington and jumping on an airplane to review some new proposal from the president that they expected to get. the whole afternoon has been spent by reporters trying -- trying to figure out what was going on. now harry vaed responding to mcconnell so let's right to it. >> he's upset because, quote, the phone never rang. he complains i've not delivered solutions to the fiscal cliff. he's in error. we all know that in july of this year we passed in the senate the relief that would give -- that it would give to middle class americans. that -- that passed the senate. now, we know the republicans have buried themselves in procedural roadblocks in everything we're trying to do out here and now they are saying, well, we can't do the 250 because it wasn't blue slipped, because it will be blue slipped. mr. president, how does the american people retook the that? there was a bill introduced by the ranking member of the ways and means committee in the house, sandy levin, that called for this legislation. the speaker
. >> what we got was a facebook post from scott brown who said he was come back to washington and jumping on an airplane to review some new proposal from the president that they expected to get. the whole afternoon has been spent by reporters trying -- trying to figure out what was going on. now harry vaed responding to mcconnell so let's right to it. >> he's upset because, quote, the phone never rang. he complains i've not delivered solutions to the fiscal cliff. he's in error. we...
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. >> josh brown made the compelling argument with delta. >> i think with a stock like delta, stay with the trend. i would stay bullish as well until something changes. if you get a huge spike include, it invalidates it. >> in the control room, can you throw up the dow real quick? i want to point out we're at session lows, down 145 points or so on the dow jones average. back at session lows, not much progress, if any, made in d.c. over the last 42 hours or so over the fiscal cliff and only two trading days after today until we go over. dow broken below 13 thousand where it currently sits. nasdaq is getting hammered to y today. you saw apple approaching the low of 505 and not counting several days ago it dipped below 500 bucks. this was a stock at $705, that record high hit back in september. the market is falling out of bed. >> it's not rising above, sinkening beneath. like the politician. >> that's where we have play on leadership. if we're not looking to d.c. we better look to the stock market for all of you putting your hard earned money to stocks and etfs or wherever you're investin
. >> josh brown made the compelling argument with delta. >> i think with a stock like delta, stay with the trend. i would stay bullish as well until something changes. if you get a huge spike include, it invalidates it. >> in the control room, can you throw up the dow real quick? i want to point out we're at session lows, down 145 points or so on the dow jones average. back at session lows, not much progress, if any, made in d.c. over the last 42 hours or so over the fiscal...
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and 1600 or higher on the s&p. >> david, josh brown. i'm curious, one of your colleagues at goldman sachs is talking about getting over the hump. and their reacceleration of gdp growth going into the second half of 2013. you think he's on the money or where would you differ from that opinion? >> we do agree that gdp should accelerate over the course of 2013. i think the real question is, what is the first half of 2013 look like? i think if the overall fiscal drag is greater than 1.5% it's going to be data dependent. there's not going to be a whole lot of confidence or willingness to immediately assume we get healthy gdp growth in that first half. >> david, i'm sorry. finish your thought quickly. i apologize. >> the first half i think is the key focus of investors. and in the first half seeing what china does and there's some signs of moderate acceleration and importantly what business spending and u.s. exports do, that's key for the s&p earnings outlook. and we, too, think that the earnings outlook in the first half will be relatively m
and 1600 or higher on the s&p. >> david, josh brown. i'm curious, one of your colleagues at goldman sachs is talking about getting over the hump. and their reacceleration of gdp growth going into the second half of 2013. you think he's on the money or where would you differ from that opinion? >> we do agree that gdp should accelerate over the course of 2013. i think the real question is, what is the first half of 2013 look like? i think if the overall fiscal drag is greater than...
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. >>> also, congressman brown is warning our economy will collapse if we don't cut spending. find out if he is willing to raise taxes if a fiscal deal also includes big spending cuts. and dan nile joins with us his top picks for next year and you will not believe which stock he likes the most. for 2013. maria and i look forward to seeing you from here at the new york stock exchange at the top of the hour for the important last hour of trading. see you guys then. brian? >> i can't wait. we will find out what dan likes. good tease there, bill. thank you very much. >>> yeah, as the song says, everyday, starting right now, we will try to bring you something that makes you go hmmm. bring something up that makes you think otherwise or maybe it is just darn whacky. but our first is not funny at all. the debate over whether washington has a revenue or spending problem, here is something that makes you go hmmm. medicare spending. in 1967 it clocked in at 2.7 billion np in today's dollars that's about 20 billion equivalent. in 2010, we spend $524 billion. that, my friends, is 19,300% i
. >>> also, congressman brown is warning our economy will collapse if we don't cut spending. find out if he is willing to raise taxes if a fiscal deal also includes big spending cuts. and dan nile joins with us his top picks for next year and you will not believe which stock he likes the most. for 2013. maria and i look forward to seeing you from here at the new york stock exchange at the top of the hour for the important last hour of trading. see you guys then. brian? >> i can't...
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scott brown is wrong. so we'd like to hear from senator brown as soon as he gets to washington about why exactly he posted that on his facebook pain and what he meant by a proposal, but the administration official eager to knock that down. a little bit of drama about whether we had a counter offer here. apparently we do not have a counter offer. we will be monitoring facebook, twitter, instagram and maybe even my space for all the latest developments. >> it is a sign of the times, isn't it, eamon. markets moving, political gyrations get put on facebook pages. wouldn't you say? >> you need to build a giant algorithm that monitors everybody's facebook page plus all the twitter feeds and instagram. if you can pull that together, you might have something. >> eamon, we have pulled all that together. it's called cnbc. here we are. >> this is what we're doing today. >> we are your one stop shop. thank you very much, eamon. >>> is today's drop in the markets all about the fiscal cliff? let's bring in tim and dan g
scott brown is wrong. so we'd like to hear from senator brown as soon as he gets to washington about why exactly he posted that on his facebook pain and what he meant by a proposal, but the administration official eager to knock that down. a little bit of drama about whether we had a counter offer here. apparently we do not have a counter offer. we will be monitoring facebook, twitter, instagram and maybe even my space for all the latest developments. >> it is a sign of the times, isn't...
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what i have focuses on with my colleague sherrod brown is somewhat higher capital requirements. i think that would be a much less government intrusive way to address the situation. that would either make the big banks spin off some parts of their businesses to come down in size or the taxpayer would have a lot more protection before the next bailout because the mega banks would have more capital. >> dodd/frank was supposed to end too big to fail. how come we're still talking about? >> because if my opinion it's institutionalized. hasn't end it had at all and that's one of the leading reasons i'm against dodd/frank at all. >> what's the point of dodd/frank if one of the key elements of it isn't even doing anything and the rest of it, it's not even implemented yet? >> well, you know, i'm probably not person to ask to defend dodd/frank because i voted against it. i was against it really every step of the way. in terms of what it was about, i would point to a very early quote from rahm emanuel, then white house chief of staff. he said, talking about the 2008 financial crisis, we're
what i have focuses on with my colleague sherrod brown is somewhat higher capital requirements. i think that would be a much less government intrusive way to address the situation. that would either make the big banks spin off some parts of their businesses to come down in size or the taxpayer would have a lot more protection before the next bailout because the mega banks would have more capital. >> dodd/frank was supposed to end too big to fail. how come we're still talking about?...
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josh brown, who made the more compelling argument on dell? >> joe made the more informative argument, but i think i have to agree with simon, where, look, they're already fading this upgrade this morning. upgrades on sentiment and valuation are really typically don't have a long shelf life. so if joe is right and there is actual fundamental improvement here, i would change my minority. but right now if i had to pick a trade, my trade would be to fade goldman's enthusiasm and look at it for what it is. hey, it's a cheap stock but one that's been getting cheaper for years now. >> stephanie link, you buy baker's argument? >> i do. i think not only is it pcs under secular pressure, but also servers. and together that's about 40% of their total revenue. i think that, yeah, joe made a great trading call. there is a lot of cash. it's super cheap. but i think actually they're going to have to use a lot of that cash to continue to build out nonpc stuff. so i think that the dividend is -- the dividend potential is nice for an increase. but i think that
josh brown, who made the more compelling argument on dell? >> joe made the more informative argument, but i think i have to agree with simon, where, look, they're already fading this upgrade this morning. upgrades on sentiment and valuation are really typically don't have a long shelf life. so if joe is right and there is actual fundamental improvement here, i would change my minority. but right now if i had to pick a trade, my trade would be to fade goldman's enthusiasm and look at it...
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traders are stephanie link, joe terranova, steve weiss and josh brown. you surprised at this downgrade? what does it mean for the stock which went under $500 a share today previously in the premarket? >> this is 20 days after initiating coverage of the buy. i guess i don't know which of the three of them was the most vociferous about downgrading because now it's three guys making the call. playbook one of them holds a little bit more sway. personally i really don't care. i don't think it's optionable, the initiation at the price it was at and now the call today. the way we're looking at apple, it's an oversold name. things that are not intonal to the business that are causing it. the stock looks like it could probably shrug off the latest downgrade from citi if only it looks from all of the pessimism about china might have been a little bit overdone. >> weiss, at what point do you see enough that's being hit in this stock that you step back and say you know what? maybe it's not going to have that quick turnaround that apple bulls think it will. >> here's
traders are stephanie link, joe terranova, steve weiss and josh brown. you surprised at this downgrade? what does it mean for the stock which went under $500 a share today previously in the premarket? >> this is 20 days after initiating coverage of the buy. i guess i don't know which of the three of them was the most vociferous about downgrading because now it's three guys making the call. playbook one of them holds a little bit more sway. personally i really don't care. i don't think...
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lift my spirits with brown foreman. >> we didn't booze up before the thing but we probably could have. the stock is not moving today. not only is it fun to talk about spirits, but second quarter net income rose 9.8%, raising full year guidance. margins were higher. it's an ig nonomonous number. >>> your biggest corporate story of of the day involves citi group. bank saying it will slash 11,000 jobs in order to save more than $1 billion a year. let's talk more about it with glen shore. he has a buy rating on citi with a $41 price target. glen, stock already at $38 and change. will it take this move or more to get to your target of $41? >> we're moving quickly. i think you had an initial pop on it today but long story short, people have understood they had differentiated growth outside the u.s. they have capital building. they have less mortgage related exposure than some of the other banks. this was the other piece of the story that people really wanted to see little bit more commitment to a more efficient company, better profitability, therefore better earnings, better capital, better
lift my spirits with brown foreman. >> we didn't booze up before the thing but we probably could have. the stock is not moving today. not only is it fun to talk about spirits, but second quarter net income rose 9.8%, raising full year guidance. margins were higher. it's an ig nonomonous number. >>> your biggest corporate story of of the day involves citi group. bank saying it will slash 11,000 jobs in order to save more than $1 billion a year. let's talk more about it with glen...
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joining us to figure it out, tony sakanagi, josh brown, and the one and only jim cramer is right here on set. i'm going to get to the other guests in just a second, jim. i want to begin with you. look at something that i prepared on valuation. so this is apple's trailing and forwce to earnings ratios against google, against microsoft, against amazon which is just out of left field. 12 times trailing. google is trading at about a 50% premium to apple. is the stock undervalued? >> yes. i think it should be owned, not bought or sold but owned. because bought it basically feels like, wait a second, you should sell it. i don't want to trade it. there are a lot of different reasons why this is. when you listen to jackie's excellent report, remember they have $100 billion in cash. might have lost $38 billion in a couple days but their cash position is almost bigger than the other s&ps. apple's inexpensive but google is expensive. it is just apple's so many hundreds of billions in market cap that sometimes it is going to fall by its own weight. >> we can bring that back up, please. when i loo
joining us to figure it out, tony sakanagi, josh brown, and the one and only jim cramer is right here on set. i'm going to get to the other guests in just a second, jim. i want to begin with you. look at something that i prepared on valuation. so this is apple's trailing and forwce to earnings ratios against google, against microsoft, against amazon which is just out of left field. 12 times trailing. google is trading at about a 50% premium to apple. is the stock undervalued? >> yes. i...
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scott brown hasn't ruled that out. but you have a democratic governor there who has talked about a number -- or there's been speculation about a number of people who could be candidates for that seat. either by appointment or in the special elections. don't know how quickly the special election would take place, but everybody from barney frank to young ted kennedy, the son of the late senator, so we're going to have to see how that plays out. certainly democrats are in a strong po in massachusetts, but of course, they were before scott brown was elected in 2010. >> john harwood, thanks for that update. more analysis on the blackberry maker. underweight on research in motion with price target of $7 a share. will, good to speak with you. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> i want to get straight to the issue of the service revenue, 36% of total revenues for research in motion. when hines talks about moving into a tiered system into next year, how concern does that get you, and how are you modeling service revenues
scott brown hasn't ruled that out. but you have a democratic governor there who has talked about a number -- or there's been speculation about a number of people who could be candidates for that seat. either by appointment or in the special elections. don't know how quickly the special election would take place, but everybody from barney frank to young ted kennedy, the son of the late senator, so we're going to have to see how that plays out. certainly democrats are in a strong po in...
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it was amazing to see the market on that -- >> scott brown bottom, as a lot of people were calling it. you were down more than 51. >> and it is amazing to see how our fortunes are being tied the at this point to what is going on in d.c. and every minor tweet or post or headline or what not, at the end of the day, it was four straight losing sessions for the dow, nasdaq, as well as the s&p 500. certainly something we have to watch. in the meantime, the clock is not only ticking for the fiscal cliff, but time is running out to avoid a strike at ports in massachusetts and texas, that could affect containers to and from the u.s. from reaching their destination. talks are taking place in secrecy between the international long shoresman association and the u.s. maritime alliance in an effort to keep 14,000 longshoreman from walking off the job. the national association of manufacturers puts the cost of a potential strike at $1 billion a day. and this is not just finished goods, obviously, but also raw materials and parts come through these ports. so it could really stymie factories in terms
it was amazing to see the market on that -- >> scott brown bottom, as a lot of people were calling it. you were down more than 51. >> and it is amazing to see how our fortunes are being tied the at this point to what is going on in d.c. and every minor tweet or post or headline or what not, at the end of the day, it was four straight losing sessions for the dow, nasdaq, as well as the s&p 500. certainly something we have to watch. in the meantime, the clock is not only ticking...
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. >> unbelievable number for brown forman. i thought what was most interesting is jack daniels way old brand, high single digits growth. i think that people just want to get lost in whatever they can get lost in. booze, marijuana, doesn't matter. >> i love that assessment, jim. >> thank you. >> except you drink jack daniels and you drive 90 miles an hour and you smoke a joint you'll get hit by someone going 90 because you're going 15. may be distracted by the munchies you're having. >> john had that terrific cadillac with shot glasses in the glove box. >> i think about the dude. he was mellow. what about -- do you think that was a public -- i mean, if it went up that much, we had an analyst arguing that netflix went up that much after the facebook posting so that it must have been the reason but that didn't get him to admit it must have been public in that many people knew about it to bid up the stock. >> this is a ridiculous story. i loved what you were talking about in terms of public disclosure. i don't follow him on facebo
. >> unbelievable number for brown forman. i thought what was most interesting is jack daniels way old brand, high single digits growth. i think that people just want to get lost in whatever they can get lost in. booze, marijuana, doesn't matter. >> i love that assessment, jim. >> thank you. >> except you drink jack daniels and you drive 90 miles an hour and you smoke a joint you'll get hit by someone going 90 because you're going 15. may be distracted by the munchies...
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the brown pelican is the state bird and appears on the state flag and on the seal. the hornets moved to new orleans from charlotte in 2002. charlotte bobcats owner michael jordan told the charlotte observer, he would consider reclaiming the name if it was available again. >> the teams move and they keep the state name and then they end up -- >> something related to -- >> when we come back, some breaking economic numbers. we are just a few minutes away from productivity numbers for the third quarter. right now as we head to a break, take a look at u.s. equity futures still indicated higher, up about 36 points for those futures. >>> welcome back to squawk "squawk box," everybody. rick santelli is standing by at the cme in chicago, steve liesman is right here in studio with us. and rick, go ahead. take it away. >> all right. third quarter final. and here we go on the nonfarm productivity up 2.9. it's within a tenth or two of the expectation, anywhere from 2.7 to 2.8. no revision to our last look. this is the revision so to speak. and the unit labor cost is a bit bigger
the brown pelican is the state bird and appears on the state flag and on the seal. the hornets moved to new orleans from charlotte in 2002. charlotte bobcats owner michael jordan told the charlotte observer, he would consider reclaiming the name if it was available again. >> the teams move and they keep the state name and then they end up -- >> something related to -- >> when we come back, some breaking economic numbers. we are just a few minutes away from productivity numbers...
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joining us on set michael brown, partner in a.t. kearney's retail practice. do we know, you have a good number for me? is 2 1/2 the number, between 3 and 4, do we know? >> the numbers are all over the place depending on what time period you're looking at and who's numbers you're looking at. most of the consensus is going to be that 2.5%, 3% range where it was forecast at the beginning of the season. >> 3% to 4% would be better. >> it looks like it's going to be closer to the 3 number. >> every year we sweat this out and there's not a whole lot of deviation from the mean most years. is there more this year because of the cliff? >> yeah, i think the cliff is partially about it. but you have to look at where we come from. beginning of the season, we saw the economy turning around. we saw construction increasing. we saw consumer confidence being up. all of a sudden then, we had the impacts of sandy, a tragedy up in newtown, connecticut, and just a lot of other factors that just put a damper on the season. >> so, it is fair to say that it started better than it en
joining us on set michael brown, partner in a.t. kearney's retail practice. do we know, you have a good number for me? is 2 1/2 the number, between 3 and 4, do we know? >> the numbers are all over the place depending on what time period you're looking at and who's numbers you're looking at. most of the consensus is going to be that 2.5%, 3% range where it was forecast at the beginning of the season. >> 3% to 4% would be better. >> it looks like it's going to be closer to the 3...
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and now it's kind of like, you know, lucy pulling away the football from charlie brown. he has the right to change his mind but we have the right to call him on it. but america is facing a debt crisis. it is spending driven, and this talk about taxes is, fwrangly, almost -- >> am i right to read between the lines. it sounds like you are saying, it's a possibility, it could be bought if you see significant spending cuts, and dealings with the entitlement programs? >> becky, what i said earlier is this is written into current law. we know what's going to happen at the stroke of midnight. i didn't vote for any tax increases. i don't want them there. but i recognize them. it's the difference between me bringing something to the table and recognizing it's on the table. house republicans are going to work hard to minimize the increase in tax revenues. we're going to do everything we can to make sure that they are done in a way that doesn't harm the economy. an approach like simpson-bowles, which is to bring down rates, bring down marginal rates, and flatten and broaden the cod
and now it's kind of like, you know, lucy pulling away the football from charlie brown. he has the right to change his mind but we have the right to call him on it. but america is facing a debt crisis. it is spending driven, and this talk about taxes is, fwrangly, almost -- >> am i right to read between the lines. it sounds like you are saying, it's a possibility, it could be bought if you see significant spending cuts, and dealings with the entitlement programs? >> becky, what i...
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without doing a proper investigation, i mean, my father was the director of safety and security for brown foreman for over 20 years. >> he was a santa claus, right? >> yes. in his retirement. >> he was very keen on safety. >> yeah, growing up, his nickname was safety man. my dad was in my house with me all the time, and my mom was, too. and this idea that my house was somehow, you know, halfway built or any of those kinds of things, it's just absurd. it is absurd. the person that came up with the ashes story was me, you know, i was worried that when i went to bed and saw the box next to the mud room -- sorry, in the mud room next to the door, i thought, oh, i should put that outside, and then i thought, no, it's okay. i vividly remember this. of course i do. so i went to bed, and when i got up i came out to the front to the top of the porch, i looked around and i saw my parents' bedroom windows, and i looked and there was no flame there, and i looked back, and the way my house was built i could go all the way around, and i saw 8-foot white parks coming out the direction of the meter, and
without doing a proper investigation, i mean, my father was the director of safety and security for brown foreman for over 20 years. >> he was a santa claus, right? >> yes. in his retirement. >> he was very keen on safety. >> yeah, growing up, his nickname was safety man. my dad was in my house with me all the time, and my mom was, too. and this idea that my house was somehow, you know, halfway built or any of those kinds of things, it's just absurd. it is absurd. the...
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without doing a proper investigation, i mean, my father was the director of safety and security for brown foreman over 20 years. >> he was an in store santa claus, wasn't me? >> yes. in his retirement. in his retirement. >> he was very keen on safety and that. you were very aware. >> yes, yes. as a kid growing up, i mean, his nickname is safety man. my dad was in my house with my all the time. and my mom was, too. and, you know, this idea that my house was somehow, you know, halfway built or any of those kinds of things, it is just absurd. it is absurd. and so, the person that came up with the ashes story was me. you know? i was bereaved that when i went to bed and saw the box next to the mud room, or i'm sorry in the mud room next to the door i thought, oh, i should put that outside. and then i thought, no, it's okay. i vividly remember this. of course i do. and so, i went to bed. when i got up, i came out the front on to the front top of the porch. i looked around. and i saw my parent's bedroom windows and i looked up. there was no flame there. and i looked back and the way that my hous
without doing a proper investigation, i mean, my father was the director of safety and security for brown foreman over 20 years. >> he was an in store santa claus, wasn't me? >> yes. in his retirement. in his retirement. >> he was very keen on safety and that. you were very aware. >> yes, yes. as a kid growing up, i mean, his nickname is safety man. my dad was in my house with my all the time. and my mom was, too. and, you know, this idea that my house was somehow, you...
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brown was a passenger. the driver was his teammate, josh brent, who now has a $500,000 bond while facing charges he killed someone while driving drunk. police say brent's mercedes was moving very fast when he hurt a curb and flipped. josh brent has a history of dui. >>> an update to last week's tragedy in kansas city. new video released by police show javon bell cher hours before he killed his girlfriend then his. dash cam video shows police talking to belcher after they found him sleeping in his car. listen to what police told him in this advice i don't released by kansas city police. >> you live right here? >> yeah. >> okay, that's going to be your best bet. >> we're trying to cut you a break here. >> belcher told police he was going to a nearby apartment to see a woman. >>> a cloud of political uncertainty is hanging over venezuela. president chavez announced his cancer has returned and he is traveling to cuba for surgery for a third time. but this time the 58-year-old leader named the vice president as
brown was a passenger. the driver was his teammate, josh brent, who now has a $500,000 bond while facing charges he killed someone while driving drunk. police say brent's mercedes was moving very fast when he hurt a curb and flipped. josh brent has a history of dui. >>> an update to last week's tragedy in kansas city. new video released by police show javon bell cher hours before he killed his girlfriend then his. dash cam video shows police talking to belcher after they found him...
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to red, yellow, black, brown and white small business owners? we've got to have deeper relationships with nontraditional constituencies. that's just the fact. >> it is the fact. i don't know who could disagree with you on that. look at the exit polls. 93% of african-americans voted for the president. i mean, you know, you are in an incredible minority as a black republican. >> but let me add this. the president got 93% of in 2012. he lost three points and i think he lost those three points in my opinion, i'll have to you know, fact check this, but i would submit to you he probably lost those three points because of his position on marriage. but those three points didn't go to mitt romney or republicans because those three points said we don't know republicans. we don't have relationships with with them. so, we'll just stay home. i submit to you they probably stayed home. they didn't vote for republicans. >> so, but how do you get african-americans, a group that is traditionally identified as democratic. 73% of asian voters and the stereotype is
to red, yellow, black, brown and white small business owners? we've got to have deeper relationships with nontraditional constituencies. that's just the fact. >> it is the fact. i don't know who could disagree with you on that. look at the exit polls. 93% of african-americans voted for the president. i mean, you know, you are in an incredible minority as a black republican. >> but let me add this. the president got 93% of in 2012. he lost three points and i think he lost those three...
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he loved to use hair gel in order to spike up his brown hair. he was a little boy who looked forward to growing up. he liked to sing at the top of his lungs and would ask how old do i have to be before i can sing on a stage? he also wanted to know when he'd be old enough to order a foot long ham sandwich at subway one of his favorite places. james was born four weeks prematurely, his family used to joke, he came into the world because he was hungry. he was an early riser, always eager to start the day. at the end of the day, he loved nothing more than to cuddle up with this mom under a blanket on the couch. james also adored spending time with his dad. in his obituary, he writes, if dad was outside, james liked to be right there with him. their one was one of a kind. james was his dad's minute any look-alike. jessica rekos loved everything about horses. she'd spend her free time reading books about them. drawing pictures, each watching movies about them. her parents both raised in newtown called her a beautiful, creative little girl who spent ti
he loved to use hair gel in order to spike up his brown hair. he was a little boy who looked forward to growing up. he liked to sing at the top of his lungs and would ask how old do i have to be before i can sing on a stage? he also wanted to know when he'd be old enough to order a foot long ham sandwich at subway one of his favorite places. james was born four weeks prematurely, his family used to joke, he came into the world because he was hungry. he was an early riser, always eager to start...
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brown's class, i believe. but you know, we have other funerals to go to and it's a tough -- going to be a tough week. it's going to be a tough road to haul for the next couple weeks. our community's completely devastated. everybody walking around town is completely numb, bags under their eyes, not knowing what to do. we need national support and we don't want you guys to forget about us as you pull away out of our town. something has to be done and there are people standing up ready to do something. we just need to see action. >> one of the people who died was vicky soto. i know that your daughter, who is now 12, remembers vicky. vicky was a substitute teacher when your daughter was at sandy hook. what was it as a father that made her so memorable? >> my daughter said how nice she was. my son knows her from being in school there last year, how nice she was and how kind. she's a beautiful woman, in the prime of her life. the job that she did with the students is echoed throughout the community. just a memorable
brown's class, i believe. but you know, we have other funerals to go to and it's a tough -- going to be a tough week. it's going to be a tough road to haul for the next couple weeks. our community's completely devastated. everybody walking around town is completely numb, bags under their eyes, not knowing what to do. we need national support and we don't want you guys to forget about us as you pull away out of our town. something has to be done and there are people standing up ready to do...
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because jerry brown jr. died in this car accident, that's why they did the blood alcohol test on him, and they say that alcohol was a contributing factor in this accident. what is crazy about all of this is the team did not know about the accident and the death until they had boarded the team plane, the team charter to fly to cincinnati saturday morning, and that's when the team that was on board the plane, head coach jason garrett told everybody who wasn't a part of the team to get off of the plane, and that's when the announcement was made to everyone and told about the horrific news. >> what a tragic story. ed lavandera for us in dallas. thanks, ed. >>> tech guru john mcafee is still fighting deportation to belize. he's speaking out from behind bars in another bizarre news conference he released on the web. up high! ok. don't you have any usefull apps on that thing? who do you think i am, quicken loans? ♪ at quicken loans, our amazingly useful mortgage calculator app allows you to quickly calculate your
because jerry brown jr. died in this car accident, that's why they did the blood alcohol test on him, and they say that alcohol was a contributing factor in this accident. what is crazy about all of this is the team did not know about the accident and the death until they had boarded the team plane, the team charter to fly to cincinnati saturday morning, and that's when the team that was on board the plane, head coach jason garrett told everybody who wasn't a part of the team to get off of the...
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jerry brown jr. died in that crash. and his teammates were playing in cincinnati, where the cowboys pulled off an emotional victory over the cincinnati bengals. >>> right to work opponents, expected to start converging on michigan's capital today. the protest is expected to swell to thousands tomorrow when the senate's house and senate are trying to hammer out an agreement to make them the 24th right to work state. we have more from the capital. >> good morning, john. all quiet at the michigan state c capitol behind me. governor rick sniyder expected o sign this bill tomorrow, you can expect thousands of protesters between now and team it would ban contracts that require workers to join a union. to pay union dues. those in favor of the bill say what it would do is help the economy by saving jobs, bringing more work to michigan. even raising salaries by not forcing union dues on workers. those against the bill say that those benefits that they have now, those jobs that they have now, could take a major hit. obviously, hu
jerry brown jr. died in that crash. and his teammates were playing in cincinnati, where the cowboys pulled off an emotional victory over the cincinnati bengals. >>> right to work opponents, expected to start converging on michigan's capital today. the protest is expected to swell to thousands tomorrow when the senate's house and senate are trying to hammer out an agreement to make them the 24th right to work state. we have more from the capital. >> good morning, john. all quiet...
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brown. then black. this was -- it was official. and if you guessed that it was better to be on the lighter end of that scale, you would be right. it made a huge difference in their potential for success even today. decades later. if you think that color test in jamaica didn't exist here in the united states, you would be dead wrong. there was something called the brown paper bag test. yes. in the u.s. it was started in the early 1900s. the african-american community. it was considered that if you were darker than a brown paper bag you weren't allowed to join certain social groups, fraternities, churches. 22-year-old teacher kiara lee does not want the lessons from the past to escape the youth of today and she's teaching young children the importance of something called colorism no matter how harsh that lesson is. soledad o'brien reports. >> we are even in the same grade. >> kiara lee recently graduate prosecuted the university of richmond. her passion is educating children about colorism. >>
brown. then black. this was -- it was official. and if you guessed that it was better to be on the lighter end of that scale, you would be right. it made a huge difference in their potential for success even today. decades later. if you think that color test in jamaica didn't exist here in the united states, you would be dead wrong. there was something called the brown paper bag test. yes. in the u.s. it was started in the early 1900s. the african-american community. it was considered that if...
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i have brown skin. >> personally, i feel like i don't really feel black. you know? i feel like it's a part of me. but it's not everything. >> so is nyo black? >> she can identify how she chooses. i'm just saying we don't know each other, i would assume she is a black woman. ancestrily she is black. but then all society as they do with millions of other people remind her of her blackness in a million subtle ways. the fact that her father is white and embedded in white culture will not prevent her from having a black experience in a racialized system. >> tim wise began fighting racism right out of college. he's written books on racism in america. >> color and who qualifies as black, who qualifies as white has historically been policed not by those who were the targets of the oppression but those who set up oppression as a way to dole out the goodies from a society where color is the dividing line for opportunity. >> how are you? >> i'm good. >> today professor bla is speaking to vision's work shop about one drop. historically, it's the concept used to define who is wh
i have brown skin. >> personally, i feel like i don't really feel black. you know? i feel like it's a part of me. but it's not everything. >> so is nyo black? >> she can identify how she chooses. i'm just saying we don't know each other, i would assume she is a black woman. ancestrily she is black. but then all society as they do with millions of other people remind her of her blackness in a million subtle ways. the fact that her father is white and embedded in white culture...
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a lot of people want to blame bobby brown. a lot of people want to blame the music business. some people want to blame everyone. what do you think? >> well, it's all of the above and a whole lot more. but it boils down to you. you know, i was introduced to certain people and to certain opportunities to use recreational drugs, and it boils down to whether i want to do it or not. and she was a strong-willed, strong-minded girl. and i can't say that it's anybody's fault. >> would she have ever gone down that route, do you think, without bobby brown in her life? >> well, if not him, somebody else. if she wants to get high, if you want to get high, you're going to get high. >> do you think she had that tendency anyway? >> i think that we all as artists, because we're highly sensitive people, and this machine around us, this so-called music industry is such a demonic thing, it sacrifices people's lives and their essences at the drop of a dime. >> whitney houston was a friend of yours. you've been quite candid about trying to help her. you rang her or felt compelled to ring her on t
a lot of people want to blame bobby brown. a lot of people want to blame the music business. some people want to blame everyone. what do you think? >> well, it's all of the above and a whole lot more. but it boils down to you. you know, i was introduced to certain people and to certain opportunities to use recreational drugs, and it boils down to whether i want to do it or not. and she was a strong-willed, strong-minded girl. and i can't say that it's anybody's fault. >> would she...
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and as you can see, she's not. >> senator brown wants to raise an issue about my character, then i'll lay it out there. you know, when i was growing up, these are the stories i knew about my heritage. i believed my mother and my father and my aunts and my uncles and i never asked anybody for any documentation. >> well, i'll tell you, scott brown obviously lost that race. with john kerry going to state, scott walker's probably going to run in june, they could be serving together, what do you think about that? >> she knocked him out like manny pacquiao got knocked out, so forget that. she beat him down this last race, trust me. >> barack obama dealt the knockout blow. it wasn't this candidate, she was a very, very weak candidate by any standard. she's beloved by progressives but she won because barack obama was at the top of the ticket, let's get real. >> scott brown has a 58% favorability rating, it's likely he's the republican nominee and very like live he goes back to the senate. all's fair in love and war. they're going to be colleagues in the senate. if that's true, they'll get ove
and as you can see, she's not. >> senator brown wants to raise an issue about my character, then i'll lay it out there. you know, when i was growing up, these are the stories i knew about my heritage. i believed my mother and my father and my aunts and my uncles and i never asked anybody for any documentation. >> well, i'll tell you, scott brown obviously lost that race. with john kerry going to state, scott walker's probably going to run in june, they could be serving together,...
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she told them the girl's father, dustin brown, had agreed to waive his parental rights. when veronica was born, it was matt who cut the umbilical cord. ever since, she lived with them in south carolina. >> i guess people think that we're not supposed to love her until the ink is dry. we're supposed to kind of care for her until, you know, everything is years down the line and she's adopted. >> reporter: they were heartbroken when just four months after they brought veronica home, her biological father filed for paternity and custody, even though he had already signed a legal document saying he would not contest veronica's adoption. he was able to do so thanks to a little-known federal law from 1978 called the indian child welfare act. you see, brown is part cherokee and a member of the cherokee nation, which means veronica is part cherokee, too. congress passed the law after finding 30% of indian children were being removed from their homes and almost all of them were being placed with non-indian families. the law is designed to keep indian children with indian family me
she told them the girl's father, dustin brown, had agreed to waive his parental rights. when veronica was born, it was matt who cut the umbilical cord. ever since, she lived with them in south carolina. >> i guess people think that we're not supposed to love her until the ink is dry. we're supposed to kind of care for her until, you know, everything is years down the line and she's adopted. >> reporter: they were heartbroken when just four months after they brought veronica home,...
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what was your reaction to jerry brown's family? another case involving bad behavior. >> bad behavior, but not directly linked or even tough to tangentially link it to the case of javon belcher. >> "usa today" reported 624 arrests have been made on nfl players since the year 2000. >> i think they reported that as at least. you can infer from that that some of that bad behavior went on in cases where the player was lucky enough not to have been arrested. it's actually more than 600. >> they're saying 28% involved alcohol-related crime, alleged crime, whatever the outcome of the cases were. in this case, you're right. they're not linked necessarily, guns and alcohol. what they are linked to possibly is the culture of the modern nfl football player. do you believe, and the reason it's quite relevant here, covering "time" magazine, roger goodell facing all kinds of issues about the league. >> the league is at a crossroads. >> a crisis, would you say? >> i don't know it approaches crisis, but a crossroads because there's a fundamental na
what was your reaction to jerry brown's family? another case involving bad behavior. >> bad behavior, but not directly linked or even tough to tangentially link it to the case of javon belcher. >> "usa today" reported 624 arrests have been made on nfl players since the year 2000. >> i think they reported that as at least. you can infer from that that some of that bad behavior went on in cases where the player was lucky enough not to have been arrested. it's actually...
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california governor jerry brown is undergoing treatment for localized cancer treatment. i understand you met a cool kid on your talkshow today. turned 12 today at 12:12 p.m. on 12/12/12. >> today at 12:12 p.m. what are you going to do? >> i'm going to yell out holla as loud as i can. [ applause ] >> you are allowed it is your birthday. >> aren't you going to be in class when you yell out? >> yes. >> i hope the teacher was okay with that. >> i hope he got his krispe kremes. >> how to get into the holiday spirit. . easy 15-minute homemade recipes you just pop in a microwave. like caramel chocolate drizzles. happier holidays. chex party mix. happier holidays. sfx- "sounds of african drum and flute" look who's back. again? it's embarrassing it's embarrassing! we can see you carl. we can totally see you. come on you're better than this...all that prowling around. yeah, you're the king of the jungle. have you thought about going vegan carl? hahaha!! you know folks who save hundreds of dollars by switching to geico sure are happy. how happy are they jimmy? happier than antelope
california governor jerry brown is undergoing treatment for localized cancer treatment. i understand you met a cool kid on your talkshow today. turned 12 today at 12:12 p.m. on 12/12/12. >> today at 12:12 p.m. what are you going to do? >> i'm going to yell out holla as loud as i can. [ applause ] >> you are allowed it is your birthday. >> aren't you going to be in class when you yell out? >> yes. >> i hope the teacher was okay with that. >> i hope he...
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>> yours has a charlie brown aspect to it. >> i think it needs me. >> what patrick needs and has is a kinky christmas tree as well as a nice plump regular one with a star that grazes the ceiling rather than pierces it. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> ho, ho, ho. >>> the great french writer albert camus said life is a sum of all your choices. we are all defined by the decisions we make every day. we make hundreds of them. paper or plastic, chicken or fish. most are mundane and require little thought, but others are agonizing, often life-altering. then there are the decisions made by leaders. some of which have changed the course of history -- for better and some for worse. july 1776, the american founding fathers' decision to declare independence. january 1863, abraham lincoln's decision to emancipate all persons held as slaves. june 1941, adolph hitler's decision to invade the soviet union. august 1945, president truman's decision to use an atomic bomb against japan. tonight we'll examine the process of making a tough decision. we'll hear about major decisions on an international stage
>> yours has a charlie brown aspect to it. >> i think it needs me. >> what patrick needs and has is a kinky christmas tree as well as a nice plump regular one with a star that grazes the ceiling rather than pierces it. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> ho, ho, ho. >>> the great french writer albert camus said life is a sum of all your choices. we are all defined by the decisions we make every day. we make hundreds of them. paper or plastic, chicken or fish. most...
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chris brown has renewed his friendship with the singer. but is it more than just friends? song tweets from rihanna suggested otherwise. >> they want to keep everybody guessing and don't want to explain it to anyone in the world. >> the jackson family. >> reporter: more turmoil for the jackson family last summer as michael jackson's teenager daughter, paris, announced on twitter that her grandmother was missing, forcing a judge to suspend her guardianship. >> she says she was not kidnapped. >> reporter: michael's siblings were disputing the claim, saying the mother was resting on doctor's orders. >> tearing up my pants, mama. >> reporter: whether it was a pleasure or a guilty pleasure, audiences couldn't turn away from tlc's hit reality show, here comes honey boo boo, about a child and her family. rapper psy had a catchy gangnam style song. the trademark dance shattered records on line, becoming the number one watched video on youtube, with more than 970 million views. but his new found fame was not without controversy. his difficult anti--american remarks he made resurface
chris brown has renewed his friendship with the singer. but is it more than just friends? song tweets from rihanna suggested otherwise. >> they want to keep everybody guessing and don't want to explain it to anyone in the world. >> the jackson family. >> reporter: more turmoil for the jackson family last summer as michael jackson's teenager daughter, paris, announced on twitter that her grandmother was missing, forcing a judge to suspend her guardianship. >> she says she...
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meanwhile, her best friend is a brown girl whose parents are from africa but they are from egypt and so people tell her well, you know, you're not really black, you're african but not really african-american. both these girls are grappling with what it means to be brown skinned and who is really black in america today. >> this is a personal topic for you. it's part of your interest in all this. at what point did you realize, not to be indiscreet here, that your color changed the way people perceived you? >> early on. i grew up in an all white neighborhood in long island, so people made it very clear that our family didn't quite fit in. i have a similar background to nya's. my mom is black, my dad is white but my parents were very direct about our identity. we're black. my mother is cuban so we're latino. for us it's a very different situation than for a lot of young people today. growing number of young people are mixed race and they're trying to work out their identity and it's really tough for some of them. >> i know from the census department that the group of mixed race people is
meanwhile, her best friend is a brown girl whose parents are from africa but they are from egypt and so people tell her well, you know, you're not really black, you're african but not really african-american. both these girls are grappling with what it means to be brown skinned and who is really black in america today. >> this is a personal topic for you. it's part of your interest in all this. at what point did you realize, not to be indiscreet here, that your color changed the way...